GM Services: What Services Could we Provide to Support LARP?

Traditionally at LARPS, the GMs do everything needed to make a game happen (except costuming which is traditionally delegated to players). At Intercon and other mini-LARP weekends, two tasks are handled “horizontally” by the event organizers (space booking, and player sign-up). Are there other things that might be turned into services? A pool of run-time GMs; Set-making services; centralized casting; an NPC pool; Printing & Typesetting; Game Photos; LARP boxing services?

After an open brainstorming panel and a working session to prioritize and concretize ideas, the “GM Services” team reports back to NELCO 2014 about their work on what services would be valuable to LARP GMs.—